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This was a really good episode, but It was definetly sad to see Charmander evolve, because I think that he was the best little pokemon.. Sometimes I wish that Charmander had never evolved, and that he could have continued to fit in more with Squirtle and Bulbasaur and Pikachu. It seemed that Charmander and Squirtle were good friends, but then once Charmeleon and Charizard came, Squirtle got to be better friends with Bulbasaur.

Anyways, good episode, and A great end to the first season of Pokemon ( gosh I remeber how in 1st grade during that season when it was on UPN..)

Anyways, LONG LIVE THE MEMORY OF CHARMANDER, Ash's strongest pokemon then, and strongest Pokemon now

I remember seeing this at a very young age. I was overjoyed. My Favorite Pokemon ever, Charmander, was Ash's first evolved Starter (even though he caught them in the wild). If only Satoshi/Ash wasn't such a n00b could truly utilize Lizard/Charmeleon's true, great power. I didn't like Hitokage's/Charmander's change in personality. How could he go from a modest, shy, little Lizard to a Rude, Lazy, Inconsiderate Medium-sized Lizard?

70% of the Serebii population uses ultra powerful legendaries (also known as ubers) in their teams.
If you are one of the 30% that thinks outside the box and doesn't use ubers, copy and paste
this into your signature! (Started by SapphireL)

I agree Misty's costume was cool but it was controversial among her fans for quite some time and some of them still don't like it much but I disagree with those who don't like it and say it is one of my favorites.

I know a lot of people didn't like how Charmander evolved and didn't listen to Ash, but I kind of like the fact that it didn't obey. It's just like the games, if a Pokemon you recieved in a trade grows too fast, then it won't listen to you.

I've got nothing better to put in my sig, so I decided to put a bunch of Pikachu! Pikachu rocks!

Surprisingly, I liked this episode. As completely moronic as Melvin was, he was able to put Ash under hypnosis and force him to battle with several dozen Exeggutors simultaneously. (What an accomplishment.) I felt a bit sad for Charmander when he evolved, though. I was really attatched to that little lizard.

The magician making Misty wear the stripper Goldeen outfit was kinda creepy, but Ash was pretty good in this ep. His magic trick was stupid enough to be funny. And I'm glad that at least in the Jap version they acknowledged the Leaf Stones being necessary to evolve.

Originally Posted by boyangfriday

If black and white are the official names im gonna have to get black to not be racist, but also get white to not look obviously not racist.

I would not call Misty's Goldeen costume a stripper outfit but rather one that looks like it would have been worn by a showgirl back in the 1950s or a magician's assistant from that same era. If it was a stripper outfit then it would have been even more revealing than it was but it was very clear that when Ash walked in on the whole performance Misty was uncomfortable wearing it in front of him and went into her biggest blushing fit ever.

This was one of my favorite episode, back in the day. Since charmander is my favorite pokemon of all, it was a sad day for me when it evolved. However, I thought it was a good way to show that Ash needed experiance as a trainer, since his pokemon wouldn't listen to him.

I loved this episode when I first saw it, as Exeggutor and Charmeleon were, at the time, my two favorite Pokemon. I still like them, of course, but these days, the favorites spotlight goes to Wynaut and Missingno., with Shedinja and Munchlax in a close second.

Despite Exeggutor being one of my favorite, yet unloved 1st Gens (tied with Parasect, Hypno) I actually think this is the worse Kanto Episode. Or atleast the most uninteresting and forgettable one. They need to give Exeggcute and Exeggutor a new episode stat.

In fact, for quite awhile, I had no idea when Charmander evolved since I've seen this episode like twice my entire life and Cartoon Network didn't air this due to it falling in that Fox->WB transitional season I believe.

It's very unusual how Melvin the unexperienced magician went to a spell and controlling the Exeggutor. But I liked the way he shows some effort and good determination on working his magic to perfect it because he wants to be a magician and succeed on it. That's what a trainer is all about: Accomplishing special dreams!

I watched this episode recently and something occurred to me when I was done. The writers really didn't give two cents about Brock, did they? Ash has Charmander struggling to burn down a horde of Exeggutors and Melvin has to jump in with his *stick* to help.

Which begs the question: Why didn't Brock just sent out Vulpix? He really was a lazy bum who did nothing back then... not even to help save Exeggutors from getting blown up...